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"Wiki While you Work"

Free Wikis for K–12 Educators

• Any time you want to create a new K–12 wiki, go to http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers.

Wikis

• Websites anyone can edit.
• If you can use a word processor, you can use a wiki!
• Visitors & authors can see a history of changes and revert to earlier versions.
• Visitors can discuss the page in a threaded forum.
• Editors can bring in content from around the web through embedding.

Learn more

• If you're not clear on what a wiki is, this excellent video from Common Craft explains it in simple terms.
• Take a look at the educational wikis wiki to see what some of your peers are doing. It's a wiki, too, so you can contribute your own examples and ideas. You may also want to check out the Wiki Walk-Through from TeachersFirst.

Educational Uses of Wikis

• Collaboratively Authored Class Texts
• Writing Projects
• Group Projects
• Sharing Resources
• Grade Level Teams
• Subject Area Teams
• Professional Development
• Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
• Accreditation self-studies
• ePortfolios
• Clubs, PTAs, and events
• Student research projects
• Publish course resources
• Knowledge base
• Mapping of concepts, brainstorming
• Presentation tools

Examples of Wikis

• The Wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org
• Dave Conlay's Aristotle Experiment - http://aristotle-experiment.wikispaces.com
  • A Moby Dick example - http://mdt-p4.wikispaces.com/Race%2C+Ethnicity%2C+and+Diversity+in+Moby+Dick
• Eva Wagner's Houghton-Mifflin Tech Resources Wiki - http://hmtech.wikispaces.com
• Eva Wagner's Technology Integration Projects for Grades K-3 - http://techtips.wikispaces.com
• Other examples from my PLN (Personal Learning Network) on Twitter (and Facebook):
  • Leigh Murrel's wikis for Spanish class - http://lm3.wikispaces.com/ & http://lm4.wikispaces.com/
  • A 5th Grade project wiki from Karen Kliegman - https://survivormd.wikispaces.com/
  • A PE wiki recommended by Jeannettee Campos - http://unitfitness.wetpaint.com/
  • A wiki for an architecture class recommended by Stephanie Cheney - http://citysectionii.wetpaint.com/
  • Wikis for Social Change recommended by Dan Rezac - http://global-poverty.wikispaces.com/ & http://theglobalwarmingproject.wikispaces.com/d

High School Wikis

• Bergmann Science http://bergmannscience.wikispaces.com/
• Computer Science w/Mrs. Davis http://westwood.wikispaces.com/
• Mills High School http://milliswiki.wikispaces.com/
• Mrs. Carpinello's Wikispace http://misswargoenglish.wikispaces.com/
• Ms. Dunn's AP English Literature & Composition http://dunnapenglish12.wikispaces.com/
• Teaching with Technology http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/

Projects & Professional Development Wikis

• Flat Classroom Project http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/
• Flip Video in Education http://flipvideo.wikispaces.com/
• Twitter4PD http://twitter4pd.wikispaces.com/
• Screencasting in Education http://eduscreencasting.wikispaces.com/

More On Educational Wikis

• Why Wiki?
• The Infinite Wiki Machine
• Wiki While You Work (Long Video)
• Wikis in Plain English (Short Video)
• See another great workshop about wikis (from CTAP IV): http://www.ctap4.org/infolit/wiki.htm